engrosser

Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. One who takes the whole; a purchaser of such quantities in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One who copies a writing in large, fair characters.

n. One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who takes, or gets control of, the whole; a monopolizer; specifically, a monopolizer of commodities or a commodity of trade or business.

n. One who copies a writing in large fair characters, or in an ornamental manner.

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Examples

“Yes,” replied the two copying-clerks and the engrosser, whose pens forthwith began to creak over the stamped paper, making as much noise in the office as a hundred cockchafers imprisoned by schoolboys in paper cages.

Indeed, the last and most valuable of these waste spaces, the New Forest itself, might have entirely disappeared had not Charles I. (the last king in England to attempt a repression of the landed class) so forcibly urged the local engrosser to disgorge as to compel him, with Hampden and the rest, to a burning zeal for political liberty.

But although Robin laughed at the droll sight, he knew the wayfarer to be a certain rich corn engrosser of Worksop, who more than once had bought all the grain in the countryside and held it till it reached even famine prices, thus making much money from the needs of poor people, and for this he was hated far and near by everyone that knew aught of him.